In recent years it has served as a bed and breakfast inn but, as of 2015, is a private residence once again.

It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof topped by a widow's walk and cupola, and a granite foundation.

The main facade is three bays wide, the center one projecting and rising to a gabled roof.

[2] The house was designed by Calvin Ryder, a local architect, for James Patterson White, and was completed in 1840.

Later owners of the house included James Taliaferro, a Florida Senator who owned it as a summer residence.